File 46 - Choosing joy

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CA ON00389 C3-8-6-46

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Choosing joy

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  • May 2001 (Creation)

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File consists a reprint of a brief excerpt about joy from Here and Now: Living in the Spirit. "Joy and hope are never separate. I have never met a hopeful person who was depressed or a joyful person who had lost hope. But hope is something other than wishes, and joy something other than happiness. Wishes and happiness generally refer to things or events. You wish that the weather will change or the war will end; you wish that you will get a new job, better pay, or a reward, and when you get what you wish, you are happy...Joy is not the same as happiness. We can be unhappy about many things, but joy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love." Published in O: The Oprah Magazine 2, no. 5 (May 2001): 51.

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      Revised by T Wong, 30 August 2021

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